http://www.javaworld.com/features/index.html JW RSS feed for Featured Articles Javaworld Copyright(C) 1994 - 2010 Javaworld http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2010/100127-android-apps.html Programmers, tech support jockeys, system admins, and just about everyone else in the IT world -- they're just like the rest of us. They can prattle on about whether the Google Nexus One is a wonderful new phone or just a knockoff of the great iPhone. There are dozens of little enhancements, like a 5-megapixel camera with a real lens, that suggest Google and HTC collaborated to build something wonderful. There are also dozens of quirks that might lead a discerning UI expert to the conclusion that Apple did it first and continues to build a better device. 2010-01-27T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2009/091909-java-future.html Fourteen years ago, a marketing genius at Sun Microsystems changed the name of a cross-platform experimental language from the very dependable-sounding "Oak" to the hyper-caffeinated moniker "Java," and proved once again why engineers are scared of the power that the marketing department can unleash when lightning strikes. 2009-11-19T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2009/091015-jetbrains-open-source.html JetBrains, which has provided its IntelliJ Idea Java IDE as a commercial product, now is offering a preview of a free, open source version of the IDE. 2009-10-15T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2009/091014-oracle-kurian.html An Oracle official at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference gave a glimpse into the volume of technologies coming out of the company. The company this week also detailed a host of software development-related product plans. 2009-10-14T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2009/jw-05-javascript-tools-overview.html Ajax has effectively launched a new era in JavaScript development, bringing with it a plethora of robust tools for the JavaScript programmer. Take a quick tour of the tools you could be using for JS development, debugging, testing, and more. You'll never code JavaScript in just a text editor again. 2009-05-26T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2009/jw-05-javascript-tools.html Ajax has effectively launched a new era in JavaScript development, bringing with it a plethora of robust tools for the JavaScript programmer. Take a quick tour of the tools you could be using for JS development, debugging, testing, and more. You'll never code JavaScript in just a text editor again. 2009-05-26T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2009/jw-05-domain-driven-design.html When a Java EE application needs to implement type-specific behavior for domain objects, a procedural, service-oriented approach leads to unnecessary code and hard-to-maintain logic. Learn about Java EE's architectural flip-side: domain-driven design that lets you make the most of Java's object-oriented roots. 2009-05-19T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2009/jw-05-clojure.html Clojure's immutable datatypes, lockless concurrency, and simple abstractions make parallel programming for multicore hardware simpler and more robust than in Java. Joshua Fox takes you on a tour of this exciting new language for the JVM, which was just recently released in v1.0. 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2009/jw-05-troubleshooting-oc4j-and-weblogic.html René van Wijk offers tips for troubleshooting incompatibilities between Oracle Web application servers and Java EE application components such as TopLink Essentials, Apache MyFaces Trinidad, Hibernate, and EJBs. 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2009/jw-04-multicore-and-cloud-ready-2.html What's all that airy stuff we're calling "the cloud"? Appistry's Guerry Semones explains the mechanics of how cloud platforms take your cloud-ready application code to the next level. 2009-04-30T00:00:00Z